Helena KRAZOWSKA-KNOTOWA (1911-1992), Queue for meat during the communist era, 1970s.

linocut, cream paper, 14 x 31 cm (light passe-partout).

Helena Krażowska-Knotowa - graphic artist, painter from Cracow. She studied briefly at the Konrad Krzyzanowski School of Painting and Drawing in Warsaw. She studied graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1937 diploma in artistic graphic design with first prize and a degree in painting). Since 1938 wife of designer Tadeusz Knot (1907-1990). From 1938-1939 a teacher of drawing at the State School of Artistic Industry in Zakopane, after the war settled in Cracow, member of the Cracow group "9 Graphic Artists". Participated in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, received numerous awards, including first and second prize at the World Exhibition in New York in 1939. Since 1936 she was engaged in printmaking, mainly woodcut (less often linocut), which was her main form of artistic activity, she was also engaged in interior design, exhibition design, applied graphics, book and press illustration.